“…As revealed, these five double-decker complexes, regardless of the number and location of hydroxy groups at the meso-attached phenyl substituents of the porphyrin ring, dissolved in THF, show just the same features in their electronic absorption spectra, revealing the nonaggregated molecular spectroscopic nature of all five compounds including 1 in THF. In line with the neutral analogues with trivalent central metal ions, M III -(Pc)(TClPP) [M = Y, La-Lu except Ce and Pm; TClPP = 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-chlorophenyl)porphyrinate] [14] and M III -(Pc)(TPP) (M = La, Pr, Nd, Eu, Gd, Er, Lu, and Y; TPP = 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrinate), [15a,15b] the absorptions of double-decker 1 at about 320 and 406 nm can be attributed to the phthalocyanine and porphyrin Soret bands, respectively, whereas the absorption bands at 473 and 1008 nm are due to the electronic transitions involving the semioccupied orbital, which has higher phthalocyanine character. An additional characteristic near-IR band for the π-radical anion of trivalent europium double-deckers around 1350 nm can also be observed for the whole series, which confirms the neutral nature of 1-5.…”